Method of attaching awls to their hafts



NITED STATES carrer.

DEXTER PIERCE, OF MONTAGUE, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD 0F .ATTACHING AWLS TO THEIR HAFTS.

vSpecification ofiLetters PatentvNo. 882, dated August 13, 1838i.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DEXTER PIERCE, of Montague, in the county of Franklin and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Article of an Awl-Haft; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description.

The nature of my invention is such that by the means of two small cylinders preferably constructed and a suitable orifice in the -Inaft that I can at pleasure attach or detach and in a complete manner awls of almost every description both of home and foreign manufacture and particularly that of the sewing awls.

The following refers to the drawing appertaining to this specification: Figure l represents A, the haft in form for sewing awls B C a part of the outer cylinder to which C D the awl is attached.

Fig. 2 represents B Fthe solidcylinder partly inclosed by Gr C and having a bearing upon the shank point of the awl C D the awl attached to and by the cylinders.

Fig. 3 represents A B the'haft having at B an orifice in which I insert Fig. 2 F G having a bearing upon B and B meeting the bottom Vof the orifice attaches the cylinders and awl to the haft as Fig. l represents.

Fig. t represents D M H the awl of forcign manufacture.

Fig. 5 represents C P G the hollow cylinder which I manufacture from sheet tin or other metal having a cut or opening P Gr along which I pass the shank of the awl until the point or crosswise part of the sewing awl passes quite through the oriice E.

Fig. 6 represents F E the solid cylinder Vto me known.

which I manufacture from wire F N a cut or cavity to receive the shank pointof the4 awl and which will receive the shank point so as to have the awl point more or less elevated to suit convenience in use which cut or cavity I substitute by an orifice `when the awl to be attached is of the straight kind and to hang straight from the haft.

Fig. 7 represents D M F the awls F N BV the solid cylinder attached to the shankpoint at F.

Fig. 8 represents the sheet or plate from which the hollow cylinder `is formed by wrapping it around wire of the same diameter as that from which the solid cylinder is made and soldering H G to L I the cut or opening being producedby G S and I K as P G, Fig. 5, K, Lbeing formed toa taper or construction ofthe orifice at E, Fig. 5, which forms produce an awl haft and fasten suited completely to sewing and almostevery y other purpose small and convenient in form Alight and "easy in use simple and ready-in 

